Virtual Box Guest Additions & CentOS 5

Installed CentOS into a VirtualBox virtual machine this evening. I recommend installing the Guest Additions into your virtual machines. Simple to do under Ubuntu. A little more involved with CentOS, but still easy enough.

Google is your friend. Here it is quick and easy:

1. Start the CentOS virtual machine.
2. Mount the VboxGuestAdditions.iso
3. Right-click on the VirtualBox CD icon
4. Click VboxGuestAdditions.iso to mount it as a virtual CD in CentOS





5. Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to open a terminal session if you are not already in one.
6. Login as yourself (if you have sudo permisions) or root (yes, I know, a terrible thing to ever do)
7. As yourself preface your commands below with sudo; as root simply enter the following:
8. mount /dev/hdc /media
9. cp /media/VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run /home/your_username/
10. cd ~/your_username
11. chmod +x VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
12. yum -y install gcc
13. If not already installed, you will also need to run:
14. yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers
15. Time to install the Guest Additions
16. ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
17. reboot or telinit 6

That's pretty much it. More pointers can be found here.